Comrade Sergo! I am sending you the reports that have been delivered to me. Please return them with your annotations regarding the facts: what is true and what is false[^306].

You get heated, no doubt, quite considerably on occasion?

You ought to take assistants, perhaps, and direct the work more systematically.

I hope you will not take offense at my remarks and will answer frankly what you think needs to be corrected and improved.

Greetings! Your Lenin

1920

Written in August, before the 27th,

First published in 1942

in Leninskii sbornik XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript

[^306]: Ordzhonikidze was serving as a senior official in the Soviet administration at this time, responsible for various economic and organizational matters.